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birken has made this point already but as a more general one. If you are already using Python in any way then use that instead of R, you will be much happier.

If you are not already using python then it still might be the right tool over using R. R has great functionality but my god are there ever warts in the R language and ecosystem.

Also: I'll add my support to the opinion that you need to be very careful that you understand the statistics you are doing or you will be asking your tools to lie to you and not know it. A whole lot of the statistics you are going to want to do will be more advanced than stats 101.
It's worth noting that Facebook and LinkedIn both benefit from network effects: every new user increases the value of their offering. This can help serve as a justification for the existence of a free tier.
How do you plan to deal with false positives (guess who is often awake at 3am :) By that I mean are you returning a probability to your customers and they pick their level of comfort/risk or is it some binary answer?
With openGL, DirectX, and other real-time rendering I believe sRGB or linear gamma are preferred because there are library and possibly hardware primitives that can be taken advantage of.
Outside of that I feel we should be notating color in terms of the L* a* b* colors
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When someone asks you to talk about a hobby or book that you feel passionately about, it's probably wise to stay away from politics and religion.

Although I think it would be a great near miss to find out I was going to suffer religious/political persecution before accepting a job.
So if I send a PM to a friend on FB with a link and note that says, this is the lamest site ever the "Like" counter on the site goes up by one? That makes perfect sense.
This is both true and false. While corruption is rampant and often expected, the environment can be easier particularly for lower capital businesses.

If you want to open a restaurant here in DC, it will take you quite a long time to get all the permits, permissions and inspections done. If you have to remedy anything, it probably won't be cheap. Once you have all the permits, you have to apply for special exemptions to stay open later, to serve alcohol, etc.

When a Latino immigrant woman tried to sell her food on some neighborhood street in DC, she didn't even last a day. She tried (at least) twice, and she was promptly ticketed and got in some trouble for selling simple treats on the street.

In contrast, in the developing countries the business comes first. You worry about making money. If it's actually working, then you can start worrying about bribes and taxes and regulations. So it can be cheaper and quicker to startup as many of these expenses are on the back end instead of being front loaded.

The Romanian quote is right on.
Good policy. :) Here is a good joke:

Q:"How does every racist joke start?"
A:[Looks over both shoulders]
Are you asking for a list as a counter argument? A list of ones to look at? Or a list of companies that match my personal criteria?

Rackspace, HP Cloud, VPS.NET, Gandi, RIMU, Slicehost (back in the day), Webbynode, Liquidweb, StormOnDemand (though a part of Liquidweb), Burst.net, PowerVPS, FDC Servers, ...

List could go on. I usually look for whether they have an established history, a site that doesn't look like a crappy overused template, a real physical address, WHOIS info on the domain, Google them and research, whether they have a real status site, maybe lookup if they have an ARIN number, traceroute to their site, etc.
It is usually worth the context switch, especially when (a) the project already has several tools in play and/or (b) the alternative is much sharper. A situation that calls for expect, or for sed, for example, is likely to be much more easily solved than with python.

On the other hand, if you're working on a system that is almost exclusively python, it wouldn't make sense to use something only "very slightly sharper". E.g. calling out to perl to do some one-liner that needs 5 lines in python.
> I recently had an intelligent, highly educated, highly paid woman tell me that "Macs are immune to viruses".

I don't doubt that, but you can't really refute a general argument with a single data point. It's not as if I said "all Mac users are more intelligent than all Windows users", which would be nonsense.

"Women in IT are generally paid less than men." cannot be refuted by "I know a lady who makes a ton of money in IT."
Oh man, I'm a parent now? I don't know if I'm ready for the responsibility!
Getting a similar feeling from Apple employees as Tesla employees doesn't mean Apple employees are really changing the world, it just means that the Apple employees genuinely believe that they are.
What, specifically, was NSFW? If there was any nudity or gore, I didn't see it.

... Now you're making me nervous, because I pulled the page up at work.
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What kinds of jobs do those papers refer to? How relevant is this research for engineering positions?
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Why should I start my career at Microsoft, rather than a startup?
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Facebook is under no obligation to continue hosting your fan page. The DMCA only prescribes upper limits to the liability sites like Facebook have to copyright infringement on their website.

> lacking due process

Due process is a constitutional right that only pertains to citizens' interactions with the Unites States Government and state and local governments.
If you have a useless paper, and you sell it to someone else, it's still a useless paper...

They are more of an inconvenience, and if they have deep pockets (like in this case), they can keep trying to fight legal battles, over and over for years. Making the other spend money in lawyers. Depending on the amount, it may be cheaper to just pay them and forget the whole thing, just like what happens in some patent cases with the hated patent trolls.

But when there's a huge sum at stake, sovereign states will fight in court. Until now, this fund has lost every case, but they keep appealing the verdicts. A few months ago, the US Supreme Court ended some of the demands, but they have opened a few more.

You get the idea... the kind of lawyers that make their profession look so bad.
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Of course, but it happened with a regularity that just didn't work out for us any more. Although it was definitely not the main issue to change.

So far though we haven't seen any of those problems on EC2 (or at least only very very very few instances)
Except that Firestone isn't selling you as good a tire as they are putting on their own Firestone cars. In order to get those tires, they want your customer's usage data and to sell advertisement space on the tires...

Both parties are acting in what they believe to be their best interests. I don't fault either. (and btw I completely agree with your second paragraph)
We think price is important and that the true power of 3D printing will come when we break out of the niche and into the mass market. Beyond price, we're designed from the start as a manufactured product, which led to much different component selection and engineering choices. These different design decisions gave us a much more rigid, robust, and quiet machine, while also allowing us to leverage the economies of scale and manufacturing skill of the global supply chain.

I'm running product at Panda Robotics.
I do not give any “uh huh” or “I see” kind of interjections that underlie most conversations.

And you want to use this method to gauge a candidates communication skills? Human communication is a very complicated and error prone process. If you're going to cut out all the vital clues, how you can expect it not to fail horribly? Feedback from both sides is essential.
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> –anything

Let me show you my collection of cat whiskers, it's right there in my tinfoil hat.
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Window managers are still commonly called window managers today. Word processors are still called word processors. That's the point - Microsoft hasn't taken away these generic terms. No, you can't call your competing product the exact same thing they call theirs. Why should you be able to? That'd be retarded.
Just "deaf" here. "deaf" people who aren't part of "Deaf cultre" are just as unable to hear as "Deaf people". In fact, the average "Deaf" person may be more likely to be able to hear, since "Deaf" is cultural (can be opted-into) and "deaf" is biological.
It's not a bad policy, but good grief, keeping up with that comment page is a full-time job.
If you can't handle a couple of 1000 hits in a short time period... does wordpress still default to not having any caching solutions at all out of the box?
One more vacuous story based on nothing but wild speculation.
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I agree that intelligence and work samples are the most critical things to look at. The trick with work samples is that most people focus too narrowly.

Yes, coding is a critical part, so don't skip it. But so is team communication (no matter how great of a programmer you are, if you won't respond to my emails, I won't think you are a great employee). So are code reviews (if you call people morons for not agreeing with your style, no matter how great of a programmer you are, I won't think you are a great employee). So is mentoring (if you can't explain concepts to people who aren't as smart/experienced/whatever as you, no matter how great of a programmer you are, I won't think you are a great employee).

I could go on. I think it is some of these softer skills that many interview questions have tried (and mostly failed) to suss out. Back to the OP, I can see it being a reasonable effort at experiencing some of the non-coding work requirements.

Much better than "how many ping-pong balls would it take to fill this room" and "design a nuclear reactor for me", both of which have been asked of me in web developer interviews.
Actually it goes up by two, but Facebook claims that's the bug, not the fact that it goes up at all.
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The older programmers I know are in niche fields, like audio effects processing or hardware hacking. It's not a job, it's what you get up and do with your brain every day.
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the hubbub over "scanning" here is silly. Obviously Facebook's systems scan your everything.
The issue is that FB considers a "private mention" as a "Like", but it's old news that a "Facebook Like" is not an "English like"
I think "often times" is an understatement. If you have a 3% conversion rate from your freemium users, you're doing a great job. Secondly, the people using your service for free are _users_ not customers. A customer pays you.

Finally, if I'm a customer and you have a freemium offering, I'm very likely subsidizing the usage of upwards of 50 other users. Is that fair?
For senior positions, I will ask a question early in the 5 minutes that is a complete tangent and has little to do with their goal. A star candidate will politely refuse to go down this rat hole and insist that we stay on topic. This seems unfair since an they’re in an interview and just doing what they’re being asked.

Got that right. Trick questions are always unfair (and mildly insulting, and just a plain waste of time) in interviews, just like they are in real life.

"Star interviewers", on the other hand, know that there's no reason to ask candidates to jump through artificial hoops like these.
If that's your proof for Tesla ruining the oil economy then your standing on thin evidence, as bandy said. The only people getting unlimited free charging are the people that just bought the new model S, AND they have to get to one of the stations. Also personally I could care less if the oil business's crash after Tesla becomes even cheaper and widespread. People may think global warming may or may not exist, but as I ride a bike to work, and breath all the car fumes that pass by, and get light headed just from that, well I'm not too worried about not having more gas burning cars around.
Completely agree, especially when used correctly. Dropbox is also a phenomenal example we spoke briefly about in the article. Every "sharing" feature they make you do to get more storage space has a value that should be considered in the "free" plan. Unfortunately, a lot of folks just look at freemium as a norm, rather than tool that needs to be sharpened and precisely used.
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I really don't think I am being racist, it's no secret that the west is more affluent than many of these countries and not a stretch to imagine that being used as a reason to justify this sort of behaviour.
Because rarely != never?
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Users can report content on FB (photos) as inappropriate (sexual, copyright, violence, etc). They almost certainly have some automatic system behind that automatically deletes content that receives enough "votes" (or maybe votes from trust-worthy users). I'm guessing that this is what happened to you.

I think that something similar (they banned our whole domain) also happened to us last year (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2527955), and I still don't know who fixed it or if it was just a glitch.

You will note that I've used a lot of "I think"s, there's a reason for that, nobody (except for FB obviously) actually knows the rules of the game :/
I think that the example of a military sailing vessel (!) shows that almost everything people build with their hands has a limited life-span, too.

In many cases the lifespan is longer, but in other cases it's shorter. My malloc() is older than my car, even though they both still get regularly used.
As long as it's applied to those who you don't empathize with - spammers, one-liners, youtube style, etc - it's ingenious.

When applied to people with well-spoken yet unpopular opinions, it's basically the worst dystopian censorship - invisible, unaccountable, and ostracizing.

The saddest cases are the people who make a few trollish comments, don't know they're hellbanned, and keep on trying to contribute.

Turn on showdead and you'll get an impression of how various cases play out. I just wish there were a way to un-dead comments/accounts through upvotes.
Agreed.

The best use of a 'free' pricing tier is for an extremely-limited version of your product - one that someone can't use on a regular basis and get what they need out of it. You have to stack your features in tiers that encourage users to upgrade in order to gain the features/scale/whatnot they need to gain sustained value from your product.

If you're giving away the basic plan product for free, you stand a lackluster chance of converting free users to paying users. But if you look at the free tier as part of the conversion funnel, it becomes a useful part of the path on the way to gaining more and more paying customers.

(The big difference is that a lot of users - myself included - are wary of free trials. But we'll definitely go ahead and sign up for something that doesn't cost us anything, with the intention of kicking the tires. And once we've signed up, we're now prime candidates for continued encouragement to upgrade.)
Yep I can't see it either. Microsoft IT doesn't often block websites, but when they do, it's probably a site with .xxx extension.
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This is one area where there is big money in hacking...er..."hacking". I don't really think the jammers are very bleeding edge if they do exist.
Yes, I ran into this at Microsoft in the early 90's, and it wasn't the first time I'd been asked to do this in an interview.
If you're making those free users work for the value their receiving (shares, referrals, etc.), then I think it's fair. Yesware is phenomenal at this, they allow you to track opens on your sent emails, but their free plan only gives you a 100 tracks/month unless you share and get others to sign up. Dropbox is the poster child of this though (spoke about it below).
"Download your free e-book now" red button is a dead link/typo.

Here is the corrected link for anyone who wanted to download the ebook. http://www.priceintelligently.com/?hsCtaTracking=920c607f-4f...

That link does break their click tracking though. So if possible, click the red button, and fix the typo yourself after by placing an 'e' between the c and i in price intelligently. Then I presume they will still get their valuable data.
No. At first, he doesn't give any indications to check if the candidate recognize this lack of understanding.

As you said it very well:

If you're going to cut out all the vital clues, how you can expect it not to fail horribly? Feedback from both sides is essential.

If your audience doesn't acknowledge your basic explanations, it's not worth going deeper in the subject. I.e. If you get no clue, go get them!
> It takes thought and creativity (and research)

And money. Lots and lots of money. Sometimes, especially with single-page sites, it can take more than 100% of the base budget to implement the progressive enhancement necessary for screen readers and the like.

Customers don't want to pay for it, and I'm not going to do it for free.

Your point in 2 needs to be backed up by some numbers. You can't appeal to someone's internal economist without some statistics.
Along these lines, the CIA requires all applicants for foreign office positions to fly to Washington and deliver a 5-minute briefing on a topic of national security as part of their interview process.
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My understanding is that the main reason Google bought FeedBurner was a signal to pagerank. More subscribers = more influence.
No it doesn't, at least not through RSS. All I see are 'Comments' and 'View Article' and the title. It doesn't display the domain anywhere.

To actually see that I have to click on the Comments first and then look at the title at the top... but I usually don't even read comments on articles so I usually don't see that.
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We've crunched pricing data for nearly 40 different SSDs, and the downward trend is striking. Right now, most drives are under the magical dollar-per-gigabyte threshold, with some costing as little as 70 cents a gig.
Perhaps in this era of political speech being hosted on the servers of various third parties, such rights should be extended.
He states he gives a deer in the headlights look. Assuming he performs it well this is a very clear communication of: "I have no idea what you're talking about"

So by not offering the routine and quick forms of 'yes I understand', a good communicator will stop to see where the holdup is, a bad one will march on without noticing there was an issue.
I finally got around to checking out Stripe after reading this post. Their documentation is pretty spectacular IMO.

- https://stripe.com/docs/tutorials/forms
- https://stripe.com/docs/tutorials/charges

Was pretty much all I need to get started (I'm using one of their third party wrapping for .NET)

I guess it might get slightly more complicated if you are doing recurring billing or customers but their standard template should be sufficient for your needs at this stage. I pretty much took this example:

1) https://gist.github.com/1750361#file_stripe_tutorial_page.ht...
2) Pulled their API wrapper (they have PHP library) - I think the only part that needs updating is your API key
3) Followed their example listed on the page

and everything worked. Let me know if I can help further!
I've never worked in consulting, but, so far as I know, the big, MBB consulting firms tend to incorporate most of the advised measures in tokenadult's post when evaluating potential employees. These measures include GMAT cut-offs, GPA cut-offs, very lengthy interviews that incorporate questions like the one discussed here, and they ultimately prefer to hire people who have previously interned with them, and what better work-sample test is there than an internship?

That sounds like a pretty solid vetting process to me, yet there's a lot of pessimism surrounding big-name consulting. I'd like to hear from anyone who's worked there or gone through this process to hear why they ultimately get such a bad rep.
It sounds like they went through a major rewrite of their backend and ended up architecting things to be much more performant than their previous system. I'm curious to find out what parts of the system they think contributed most to the performance increase. While this is interesting it is by no means an apples to apples comparison of Node and Rails as the headline suggests.
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Hi. I did recognize the joke about Fight Club at the time. But please do trust me, the tone and context made it a mild form of geek-shaming. His effective statement was, "Yeah, I liked that stuff too when I was a kid."

Further instances included people, starting with the same man, explicitly stating that they preferred the X-Box 360 to the Nintendo Wii because the Wii is childish. This was around the time "Elder Scrolls: Skyrim" came out, so there was a bit of a buzz about the new game release. I had mentioned being excited for the new "Legend of Zelda" game, which was contemporaneous.

I wasn't "determined to feel persecuted". Remember, if I had felt persecuted when interviewing, I would never have taken the job. I had really been excited for that job, actually.

I had never expected my coworkers to share my out-of-work hobbies, but I had expected that if the topic came up in casual conversation, I wouldn't be labeled childish or immature for what I like doing outside of work (particularly since I was, at that time, the youngest person in the office... but still old enough to be a college graduate who can legally drink working a salaried job and living independently).

A poster further down has mentioned "My Little Pony" (which, thank God, I didn't even know about back when I worked at this office). It's another fairly good example. If you ever reveal to most people that you enjoy that show, they will say to your face that you're some kind of manchild JD Salinger character, or someone with severe gender identity issues.

Which brings us right back to the issue that you should not be talking about this stuff in a job interview unless the interviewer has actually established that they are a good-natured and tolerant person who cares more about how you answer than what you answer. And I would hold that the same standard should apply to being a far-right Tea Party member, or having a cockfighting hobby.
Why do a lot of these providers differentiate between OpenVZ and KVM? Usually there's a significant pricing difference, but little in the way of explanation as to why.
Or you are simply weeding out the top class of freelancers before they even contact you because they have enough options that dealing with a potentially aggravating client isn't worth a response.

I do agree that, of those who remain, filtering out those who fixate on negative aspects of the relationship is a good idea. Those people will often look for negative things, even if none are there, making them painful to work with.